104 MORACEAE. 



1. TREMA Lour. Flor. Coch. 562. 1790. 



Tall shrubs or trees, unarmed, usually pubescent. Leaves alternate, 

 toothed, 3 -nerved at the base, equilateral or only slightly inequilateral, short- 

 petioled, the stipules lateral. Flowers small, mostly monoecious or polyg- 

 amous, greenish or whitish, the perfect mostly fertile, in axillary cymes. 

 Sepals of pistillate flowers induplicate-valvate, those of the perfect flowers 

 slightly imbricated. Stamens 4 or 5. Ovary sessile. Stigmas 2, entire. Ovule 

 pendulous. Drupe ovoid to globose. [Name unexplained.] Some 30 tropical 

 species. Type species: Trema cannabina Lour. 



1. Trema Lamarckiana (R. & S.) Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. 2: 58. 1853. 



Celtis LamarcJciana R. & S. Syst. 6: 311. 1820. 



Sponia Lamarcliana Decn. Nouv. Ann. Mus. Paris 3: 498. 1834. 



Trema Lima Hitch. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 129. 1893. 



A tree, up to 8 m. high, the trunk sometimes 3 dm. in diameter, or more 

 often a shrub 1.5-3.5 m. high, the twigs slender, rough-pubescent. Leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate, short-petioled, 5 cm. long or less, very rough on the upper 

 side, 3-nerved at the base, reticulate-veined and finely tomentose beneath; 

 flowers only about 2 mm. wide, the staminate clusters sessile, the pistillate short- 

 stalked; fruit ovoid, about 3 mm. long, smooth. 



Scrub-lands and coppices. Great Bahama, Andros. Mangrove Cay. St. George's 

 Cay, New Providence. Rose Island. Hog Island, Eleuthera, Great Guana Cay, Wat- 

 ling's, Crooked Island and Mariguana : — Florida : Bermuda ; Cuba to Porto Rico ; 

 Montserrat to St. Vincent. Lamarck's Trema. Paik-ix-back. 



Family 2. MORACEAE Lindl. 



Mulberry Family. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs, mostly with milky sap, petioled stipulate leaves, 

 and small monoecious or dioecious axillary clustered flowers, or the pistil- 

 late flow^ers solitary in some exotic g-enera. Calyx mostly 4— 5-parted. 

 Petals none. In Ficus the minute flowers are wholly inclosed in receptacles. 

 Staminate flow^ers panieled, spicate or capitate, the stamens as many 

 as the calyx-segiuents. Pistillate flowers capitate, spicate or cymose. 

 Ovary superior, 1-celled in our genus. Ovule solitary, pendulous, ana- 

 tropous. Styles 1 or 2. About 55 genera and 925 species, natives of 

 temperate and tropical regions. 



1. FICUS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 1059. 1753. 



Woody plants, mostly large trees, with milky sap, weak wood, and alter- 

 nate leaves Avith interpetiolar stipules. Flowers minute, wholly enclosed in 

 receptacles, the staminate with 1, 2 or 3 stamens with short, stout filaments, 

 the pistillate with a sessile 1-celled ovary, the style lateral, the ovule anat- 

 ropous. Aehenes enclosed in the receptacle. [Latin fig.] Some 600 species, 

 of tropical and warm regions. Type species: Ficus Carica L. 



Receptacles normally sessile. 1. P. aurea. 

 Receptacles peduncled. 



Leaves 6 cm. long or less, short-petioled. 2. P. jacqttinifolia. 



Leaves 3-10 cm. long, long-petioled. 3. P. hrevifoUa. 



